An email filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and monitors all inbound email messages to prevent any unwanted ones from reaching a certain mailbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank notices or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea of damaging your personal computer. Spam filters normally examine the content of an email message and in case they spot particular keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email message or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting providers combine their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee better safety for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam emails recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Hosting

The protection of any email account that you set up in a hosting account with us is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin email filter that we employ. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with five safety levels based on the spam score it gives to each and every message depending on various parameters, such as the recurrence of given words and phrases, the sender, etc. If you keep getting junk emails, you can always increase the level or if you are scared that you may omit a genuine email message, you can combine the automatic email filter with a custom one and forward all email messages from a particular sender to some other email account. In case you reach the decision that you no longer require anti-spam protection for a certain email account, you can deactivate it with no more than a few mouse clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use one of our semi-dedicated servers, you will not need to worry about junk messages clogging your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the famous SpamAssassin filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated server account. Our custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with a couple of clicks of the mouse and you can select any of the five levels of protection – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for instance, authentic messages get filtered, or if spam emails go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be forwarded to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can go through them from time to time to ensure that you haven’t missed out on a genuine email.